Prestige Economies (Other Keyword)

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Negotiating Power at the Spanish-Philippine Frontier: What Evidence of Indigenous Prestige Economies Reveals about Indigenous-Colonial Interaction (2015)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Cecilia Smith.

Historical documents provide most of what is currently known regarding Spain’s subjugation of the Philippine archipelago. However, in this paper I discuss how archaeological evidence of indigenous prestige economies enriches our understanding of the interaction between the encroaching Spanish colonizers with indigenous polities. My study of imported ceramics found in the Malangwa watershed, Negros Oriental indicate that, contrary to Spanish records, indigenous access to foreign prestige goods...

Prestige economy and leadership in southwestern Colombia (400 BC-800 AD) (2015)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hernando Giraldo Tenorio.

The capacity of the leaders in the Intermediate Area of the Americas to amass power before 1000 AD has been usually explained as a result of the manipulation of a religious ideology or through the creation of social debts in the context of feasting. My dissertation research in the Malagana site, in southwestern Colombia, has provided evidence indicating that these were not the only factors involved in the development of social inequalities in the region. I discuss the importance of prestige...